Applications Manager

Company Overview AEM Holdings Ltd. is a Singapore-based global leader in semiconductor and electronics testing solutions. It delivers advanced test innovation, automation, and engineering solutions to top technology companies worldwide, enabling improved product quality and faster time-to-market. Job Summary The Applications Manager leads the translation of customer requirements into reliable application solutions, directs technical execution from solution definition to production roll-out, and builds a high-performing applications team collaborating across multiple functions. Responsibilities • Lead, coach, and develop the Applications Engineering team by planning resources, allocating work, and driving capability development and succession planning • Define functional priorities, technical standards, operating processes, and measurable objectives aligned with business and customer needs • Foster a technical culture focused on customer value, disciplined execution, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement • Partner with customers to analyze test requirements, application challenges, and production goals, translating them into practical technical solutions • Lead technical reviews, solution scoping, feasibility assessments, demonstrations, evaluations, and provide technical input for quotations and statements of work • Serve as senior technical escalation point for complex customer and field issues, ensuring ownership, timely communication, and effective resolution • Oversee application solution development across ABI, SLT, and ATE platforms, including board design, test-program development, system integration, validation, and optimization • Direct solution release, factory and site acceptance, customer qualification, production roll-out, and sustaining support • Ensure application deliverables are robust, documented, traceable, and compliant with customer specifications and AEM quality and safety standards • Plan and manage multiple customer and development projects by defining scope, schedules, milestones, resources, risks, budgets, and status reporting • Balance customer commitments and business priorities to ensure timely, high-quality delivery • Monitor project and application performance, identify delivery risks early, and drive corrective actions with cross-functional stakeholders • Collaborate with Hardware, Software, Firmware, Core Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Field Service, Sales, and Program Management teams to achieve project and customer objectives • Coordinate with AEM Engineering and Production Centres to resolve technical and execution issues and ensure smooth transfer into production and customer environments • Share best practices, lessons learned, reusable methods, and technical knowledge across regional and global teams • Establish and improve application engineering processes, design and test methods, documentation standards, tools, and technical governance • Drive root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements in system performance, reliability, test coverage, yield, cycle time, and customer experience • Develop training materials and conduct technical training for Applications, Field Service, and customer teams as needed Required competencies and certifications • Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer, or Mechatronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in semiconductor test, ATE, instrumentation, application engineering, or test development, including at least 5 years in a technical leadership or people-management role • Strong understanding of analogue and digital electronics, metrology, semiconductor test processes, system integration, and test methodology • Proven experience leading customer-facing technical engagements, complex issue resolution, product qualification, deployment, and production ramp activities • Strong project-management skills covering scope, resources, budget, risk, schedule, reporting, and stakeholder alignment • Effective leadership, coaching, influencing, communication, and presentation skills in a global, cross-functional environment • Fluent written and spoken English to communicate effectively with global teams and customers • Willingness to travel internationally and support customer activities outside normal working hours when business needs require Preferred competencies and qualifications • Hands-on experience with application boards, test programmes, instrumentation, fixtures, handlers, DUT interfaces, and hardware-software integration • Additional regional language capability to support communication with regional customers and teams